Dear All,
Please find below the call for (virtual)
Deadline for RIXC Festival/ Open Fields2021 conference: POSTSENSTORIUM
extended until September 6, 2021!
Please apply here -> https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php
Looking forward to see you in the virtual conference, taking place from
September 23-25, 2021, virtually in Zoom. The only physical event of
this year's festival will be the international exhibition in the
National Library of Latvia and RIXC Gallery in Riga.
More info will follow soon on the website: https://festival2021.rixc.org/
Best,
Rasa
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PostSENSORIUM
RIXC Art Science Festival 2021
and Open Fields Conference
September 23–25, 2021, Riga, Latvia (Virtual)
https://festival2021.rixc.org/
PostSensorium, this year's RIXC Art Science Festival and the Fourth Open
Fields Conference (virtual), will take place from September 23-25, 2021,
exploring the immensity of our virtual and real life challenges that
demand a renewed focus on sensory perception and embodied experiences.
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Open Call for Conference Proposals
Deadline Extended - September 6, 2021
APPLY NOW! https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php
https://festival2021.rixc.org/
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PostSensorium festival aims to provide a platform for artistic
interventions and critical discussions on 21st-century's virtual sensing
technologies, science and aesthetics, reconsidering the relations
between the actual and virtual, organic and artificial, natural and
techno-social, human and “more-than-human”...
The PostSensorium Festival Program will feature the Opening of the
PostSensorium Exhibition (the only physical event of this year's
festival) showing the works by internationally recognized artists who
are at the forefront interrogating novel sensing tools, immersive
technologies, and experiential art practices.
The PostSensorium Virtual Program will consist of the annual Open Fields
Conference, online WebVR exhibition and Screening Program by young and
emerging artists, Live Concert and Performances from RIXC Greenhouse,
Artist Talks and outstanding Keynote Lectures discussing the
contemporary mediums, artistic practices and novel tools for exploring
human and “more-than-human” sensoriums, AI and aesthetics of the 21st
century, and art practices creating new immersive experiences.
* Keynote Speakers
Christiane PAUL/ professor of media studies at The New School / Adjunct
Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York
City / well known as the author of the book “Digital Art” (Thames &
Hudson. 2003/2008/2015/2022) / curator of “The Question of Intelligence:
AI and The Future of Humanity” (2020) exhibition.
*Oliver GRAU* / art historian and media theoretician / Chair Professor
for Image Science at Danube University, Austria / Founder of the Archive
of Digital Art and the MediaArtHistories conference series / author of
“Virtual Art: From Illusion to Immersion” (MIT Press/Leonardo Book
Series, 2003), and other books on media art history and immersive arts.
*Douglas KAHN */ historian of the arts, theorist and writer / Honorary
Professor at Sydney College of the Arts at University of Sydney,
Australia / author of Noise Water Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts
(MIT Press, 1999) and other books on sound and energies in music, art,
media arts and literature.
* Concept and Themes
“We like to imagine ourselves as rational beings who think and speak,
yet to live means first and foremost to look, taste, feel, and smell the
world around us.” (Emanuele Coccia, 2016)
The human sensorium has always been mediated. “Without the 'medium' of
air or water, the anthropoid ear finds it impossible to hear” (Caroline
A Jones, 2006). But with more recent enhancement of virtual and sensing
technologies, and intensification of its daily use, our 'sensoriums'
have become more mediated than ever before. Recent conditions of
navigating our lives between the virtual and the real, demand a renewed
focus on sensory perception and embodied experience.
Earlier cyberfiction referred to the body as a “meat machine”, the only
function of which is to facilitate the activity of the brain, so – to
think; while our thinking separated from the body was considered to be a
purely transcendental act. Even if contemporary neuroscience
increasingly confirms that our “will'' is an effect of basic autonomic
neurons (hence, 'sensing'') we keep designing our machines, including
the intelligent ones, “to foster the fantasy that bodies are separate
from the minds that 'control' them”. Moreover, as an art historian,
curator and author Caroline A Jones puts it that “embodied experience
through senses (and their necessary and unnecessary mediations) is how
we think”. (Jones, 2006)
According to contemporary philosopher Emanuele Coccia “our existence –
whether sleeping or awake – is a relentless stream of the sensible…”,
yet the communication of two – body and mind, imaginative and physical,
natural and artificial – needs a medium, as “the things are not the
sensible themselves, they need [a media] to become visible, tangible,
audible”. (Coccia, 2016)
PostSensorium festival will take on the earlier RIXC studies on
“techno-ecological perspective” aiming to open it up towards broader
discussion on “post-sensorium conditions”; whereby asking which mediums,
technologies or practices are better than others served to reveal our
sensorium – as mediated being and extended reality.
The festival will gather together artists, theorists, and researchers
who are in a forefront of exploring the “post-sensorium conditions”,
critically interrogate transformative potential of arts, and use virtual
sensing tools for creating new embodied and immersive experiences in
which sensible and actual, embodied and imaginative, natural and
artificially intelligent are in a continuous interaction..
* OPEN CALL: Open Fields 2021 Conference (Riga/Virtual)
We welcome proposals for the PostSensorium conference by artists, PhD
students and researchers from different fields, who explore extended
reality applications, virtual sensing tools and other immersive
technologies, use data, AI and ML algorithms; collaborate with science,
biology, ecology and other disciplines; create and critically engage
with embodied experiences, immersive environments, and experiential
practices.
Topics:
- Embodied Experiences and Extended Reality
- Virtual Sensing, Photogrammetry and Experiential Art Practices
- Sensory Perception and Sonic Immersions
- Intelligent Ecosystems and More-Than-Human Conditions
- Ecologies Beyond Green - Light, Energies and Fields
- Living Technologies - Artificial Intelligence & Biopolitics
DEADLINE for Conference Abstract submissions:
August 20, 2021
Please submit your proposals online:
https://openfields2021.rixc.lv/openconf.php (direct link to submission form)
http://festival2021.rixc.org (more info / conference and festival website)
Conference proposals should consist of:
- title and abstract (max 200 words),
- 5–6 keywords,
- short author's biography (120 words).
* Publication
The selected papers will be published in the new edition “GREEN
Revisited” of Acoustic Space (Volume 19) / Renewable Futures (Issue 4),
co-edited by Rasa Smite, Jens Hauser and Kristin Bergaust, published by
RIXC, 2022.
Call for full papers is open with the deadline October 30, 2021, for the
participants of the Open Fields 2020 and 2021 and Renewable Futures
conferences – PostSensorium (OF2021, Riga), Ecodata (OF2020, Riga), and
Living Technologies (RF2021, Oslo).
Send your submissions to: r...@rixc.org and cc: rasa.sm...@rixc.org
(editor).
More info: http://acousticspacejournal.com
* Exhibition
The virtual conference and festival program will be connected to the
exhibition, the only physical event of this year's festival that will
take place from September 24 until November 12, 2021 in the National
Library of Latvia and RIXC Gallery, featuring immersive and experiential
artworks by fourteen international artists. The exhibition will be
complemented by onsite guided tours and interactive educational programs
for the local public of Riga and Latvia, as well as virtual excursions
by curators and artists for online audiences.
* Context: GREEN Revisited and Renewable Futures
Open Fields is the annual RIXC Art Science festival conference based in
Riga and organized in collaboration with its academic partner – MPLab
(Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University, Liepaja, Latvia. Open Fields
is a leading Baltic Nordic platform for critical discussions on emerging
discourses and novelty art forms in the field of artistic research,
digital media, art and science, and techno-ecologies.
Open Fields is a part of Renewable Futures, a larger international
network and biannual traveling conference series in the Baltic Sea and
North European region that aim to invent new avenues for more
sustainable and imaginative future developments, shaping new contact
zones between traditionally separated domains – art and science,
academic research and independent creative practices, sustainable
businesses and social engagement in the 21st century. The first
Renewable Futures conference took place in Riga (2015), followed by two
next editions in Eindhoven (2017) and Helsinki (2018).
This year, the fourth Renewable Futures conference will take place in
Oslo, in November 4-6, 2021, exploring the topics related to “Futures of
Living Technologies”.
Currently, the Call for Renewable Futures 2021
“Living Technologies” virtual conference in Oslo is also open with the
deadline – September 6, 2021.
More info and submission from is
available here: https://feltproject.no
This year's Open Fields 2021 “PostSensorium” (virtual) conference in
Riga, and Renewable Futures 2021 “Living Technologies” (virtual)
conference in Oslo, are manifesting a closing phase of “Green Revisited
- Encountering Emerging Naturecultures (GREEN)” Creative Europe's
cooperation project. The GREEN project aims to develop a European
platform that shapes and promotes an emerging “naturecultures” paradigm
via the arts and enhances criticality by investigating the pervasive
greenness trope.
http://green.rixc.org
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* Registration Fees / Tickets
Festival's Virtual Program offers festival passes as well as single
event tickets:
- Conference Registration Fee / Festival Pass – 18 EUR /
Discount for students – 10 EUR
- Single Event tickets (Keynote Talks, Conference Panels, Virtual Tour
by Curators through the Exhibition, Video Screening, Concert and
Performances) – 5 EUR / 3 EUR (with student discount)
On site Exhibition in the Library and Gallery has a free entrance.
Guided Tours for school groups can be booked for no charge via e-mail
r...@rixc.org
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* Support and Partners:
The PostSensiorum Conference is co-organized by RIXC's academic partners
- MPLab (Art Research Lab) of Liepaja University and RISEBA University
of Applied Sciences.
The PostSensiorum Festival and Conference program take place in the
framework of “Green Revisited - Encountering Emerging Naturecultures
(GREEN)” project co-funded by the EU program Creative Europe. GREEN
project is led by RIXC in collaboration with the partners Baltan
Laboratories (The Netherlands), Emmetrop (France), Zavod Projekt Atol
(Slovenia), Oslo MET (Norway), Biofilia at Aalto University (Finland),
MPLab / Art Research Lab at Liepaja University (Latvia).
The festival is supported by The State Culture Capital Foundation of
Latvia, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of
Latvia, Goethe Institute, and others.
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* Producers and Contact:
The Festival is Produced by The RIXC Centre for New Media Culture.
Festival curators: Rasa Smite (r...@rixc.org) and Raitis Smits
(rai...@rixc.org)
Festival producer: Agnese Baranova (agn...@rixc.org)
PR and information coordinator: Liva Silina (r...@rixc.org)
Contact e-mail: r...@rixc.org
Phones: +371 29635167 (Agnese Baranova), +371 26546776 (Rasa Smite)
Address: RIXC the Centre for New Media Culture, Lencu iela 2, Riga,
LV-1010, Latvia
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